Show us your sculpture or brew rig

I finally finished my wood rig thanks the the inspiration received from this thread, especially Scuba Steve. Single tier natural gas. The hoses were swiped from a bio med facility we demolished a few months ago. My biggest concern is my homemade false bottom. It's 16 ga. SS so it should hold but I'm not sure how it will be for sparging. We'll find out next weekend.

Taught myself how to weld, sweat copper, thread pipe, but here she is:

My two tier natural gas stand. I love it.

evandena said:

Taught myself how to weld, sweat copper, thread pipe, but here she is:

My two tier natural gas stand. I love it.

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Great Color scheme

2NobleDogs said:

Great Color scheme

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Hah... Pretty similar.

My new brew pal

Find my brew stand

Here's my baby.

Welp, here she is finally. My brutus magic.(2 tier on a budget. The budget that got away from me that is more accurate.

Bad cellphone pic... BCS460 controlled, 2- 5500w elements that can run at once, brewers hardware rims tube, "tippy keg" Still need to mount the panel to the wall and put some finishing touches on it. So far its been working well.

yukonCorneliusKeg said:

Welp, here she is finally. My brutus magic.(2 tier on a budget. The budget that got away from me that is more accurate.

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Here is another picture of my brew sculpture .



I like the swing out arm for the control panel. It makes it easy to swing it out of the way when I am doing some stirring etc. and it is not in the way ever. I got that idea from someone here.

sv_1 said:

Bad cellphone pic... BCS460 controlled, 2- 5500w elements that can run at once, brewers hardware rims tube, "tippy keg" Still need to mount the panel to the wall and put some finishing touches on it. So far its been working well.

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I really like that grain chute under your tippy dump MLT. Nice touch. Also, nice People's Republic of California sticker.

sv_1 said:

Bad cellphone pic... BCS460 controlled, 2- 5500w elements that can run at once, brewers hardware rims tube, "tippy keg" Still need to mount the panel to the wall and put some finishing touches on it. So far its been working well.

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Do you have a build ore any plans? I am wanting to build a 1550 type rig but with weldless framing.

HDIr0n said:

Do you have a build ore any plans? I am wanting to build a 1550 type rig but with weldless framing.

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Here is what amounts to a napkin sketch. I'm no cad operator...

It's a shrunken version of the morebeer tippy dump

Here she is. What do you guys think?

jeepinjeepin said:

Here she is. What do you guys think?

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Your little yellow assistant brewer is awesome!

ScottSingleton said:

Your little yellow assistant brewer is awesome!

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Thanks. It's an owl kitchen timer. Wife bought it because it's pretty. The oven and microwave have perfectly fine digital timers for me. In all honesty I do have a very modest propane setup outside. Hope you got a giggle out of it.

This is my BCS all eHERMs, with a pic of the in line O2 system. Need to calabrate the sight glasses, but had a great second brew on it today...ended with a little stronger beer but a little less than planed.

She aint the purdiest, but I made her and she works great!

Here is our 240v Brutus 20 rig. 3 brews in so far, so much easier than ye old turkey fryer

Looks like old relay racks being re-purposed for something more useful than supporting electronic equipment..... NICE!

You are right. The idea was to build the thing out of parts on hand/stuff in our garages. Except for the PID, RTD, element, pump, spa panel and some fittings, that is what we did. Made for a heck of a puzzle at times

Bsquared...there is an android app out for the bcs by the way. I like that you are using the bcs. It is so much easier than separate PID's and probably cheaper too!

I use the iPhone app, but there is at least one android app

I really like the versatility of the BCS, this is the third system Ive built around this BCS, the first two where 5 and 10 gallon HERMS systems with separate HEX. This system I put the heat exchanger in the HLT. Its nice as well to be able to switch temperature probe assignments with out any re-wiring.

Here's mine. EHLT, Pump to MLT, Gravity to brewpot. I love the E-HLT, best thing i did.

fpweeks said:

Here's mine. EHLT, Pump to MLT, Gravity to brewpot. I love the E-HLT, best thing i did.

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Do you have a build thread or links to your guide for the e-hlt?

Here is my Brew Rig. I call it the Bruton because the frame is a old Futon frame that I converted.

Smashing said:

Do you have a build thread or links to your guide for the e-hlt?

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I did not make a build thread for it but I got all my ideas from here.

It's a 1500 watt element, controlled by an auberins pid. Heats 9 gallons straight from the well to 168 in like 2.5 hours. If I'm in a hurry and don't have time to prep I use hot water at about 110 and it's to 168 in less than an hour

I'll post a few pics this weekend

celticcolorado said:

Here is my Brew Rig. I call it the Bruton because the frame is a old Futon frame that I converted.

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Nice grain bed.

Here are a few pictures of my new brew rig.....I spent the whole winter building it and will be brewing my third batch on Saturday. RIMS brewing is totally new to me but I am learning a lot and if a few brews will have all the bugs worked out

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stellaontap said:

Here are a few pictures of my new brew rig.....I spent the whole winter building it and will be brewing my third batch on Saturday. RIMS brewing is totally new to me but I am learning a lot and if a few brews will have all the bugs worked out

Ertic

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Wow! Electric, hard plumbed with polished keggles. Impressive!

Very very nice! I am almost done with my herms stand. Love the look of yours.

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I love this pic!

I'm noting wet floors in a lot of these pictures. As someone who is currently drawing out designs, I'm curious to know what the largest source of leakage is in people's experiences.

pfgonzo said:

I'm noting wet floors in a lot of these pictures. As someone who is currently drawing out designs, I'm curious to know what the largest source of leakage is in people's experiences.

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I don't think it is leakage as much as it is hose swapping. One of my design goals for my rig was no hose swapping. I only unhook one hose during the brew and that is to run into my fermenter at the end.

How do you keep the hot water from stratifying in the tank? Do you have an agitation system, or a recirculation system?

fpweeks said:

Here's mine. EHLT, Pump to MLT, Gravity to brewpot. I love the E-HLT, best thing i did.

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pfgonzo said:

I'm noting wet floors in a lot of these pictures. As someone who is currently drawing out designs, I'm curious to know what the largest source of leakage is in people's experiences.

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definitely hose swapping for me; though with two pumps I try to just disconnect the high-sides.

One of these days I'll get around to plumbing it up.

fast900t said:

How do you keep the hot water from stratifying in the tank? Do you have an agitation system, or a recirculation system?

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A plastic spoon. :-/

Actually just picked up the necessary fittings to allow the pump to recirc water. Doing a test run with that now and it seems to do the trick

pfgonzo said:

I'm noting wet floors in a lot of these pictures. As someone who is currently drawing out designs, I'm curious to know what the largest source of leakage is in people's experiences.

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Hard plumbing is how I avoid leaks... works great!